Marrekrite, Grou and a few pictures

We spent two nights at a 'Marrekrite' place in the Princenhof. "Marrekrite" is an organisation that maintains litterally thousands of mooring places 'in the wild' in Friesland where one can tie up, free of charge, for up to three nights in a row. Of course there are no 'facilities' apart from (usually) a rubbish bin. But a wonderful way to spend a few quiet nights and we gladly buy their little banner every year to show our support!

The evening of the first day, the wind dropped completely and we even sat outside on the front deck to drink our coffee! The second night was quite a different kettle of fish: it was blowing a near-gale and raining.

This morning we left and came to Grou, just an hour away.

Here are some pictures:

First night: sailing in the Princenhof 

The dinghy, now with an electric outboard motor. It was leaking a bit of water through a loose weld in the bottom. We fixed it today, hopefully it holds!

Mr and Mrs Duck came looking for a bit to eat after we arrived in Grou.

Tomorrow we will go to Franeker, then on Friday (very little wind predicted) catch the outgoing tide to Vlieland.